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Nicky Morgan reckons she has what it takes to be Tory leader. She put her name on the board last October and followed it up with a declaration in February that it would be “a big mistake if Tory members were offered a choice between “two white men”, when David Cameron steps down.
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http://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/rob-slane-perhaps-the-witless-platitudinous-nicky-morgan-is-right-our-kids-minds-have-turned-to-lefty-mush/
"The Education Secretary, Nicky Morgan, has now waded into the debate on EU membership, bringing with her just about every device from the toolbox of the modern career politician: good use of emotive scaremongering, lots of high sounding but meaningless platitudes, all topped with a good drizzle of disingenuous nonsense."
Well, quite.
I told her leaky shoes were too close to LibDem sandals and no good would come of it ... her beard is coming on a treat though - very trendy ..
The least able and most housetrained minister and that is against some strong competition. She also has the charisma of a rock. This is the minister that said: So like ISIS then ? and presided over this sort of horse shit from OFSTED: Then there is this, assigning too much import to ovary count, and not enough to basic economic literacy:
http://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/laura-perrins-morgan-plays-the-uterus-card-but-she-doesnt-get-my-vote/
Quite. If there is a need for ovaries on the ticket, there are far more talented woman in the party, although I would prefer it if we could look at talent irrespective of genitalia.
If I've understood her All Must Be Academies diktat, it undermines the whole point of parental power. Far too early in the roll out, fine if it's just clearing up a few stragglers but even then I'm not too convinced.
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I liked the way you managed to slip 'Jeremy Hunt' in for comparative purposes though I think you could have moved him from the 'hapless' column to the 'beleaguered' one. I can only think his 1% support with Conservative Home was a rounding error?
To remind us that Labour have their own crackpots by introducing Lucy 'Edstone' 'Powell was smart. There has been some criticism of unbalanced headers lately.
Then back with Graham Brady (known even to his his footballer wife Hale constituents as 'Thicko') and on to the governments 'defeats and retreats' then ending with George and his "megashambles budget"..........
.......altogether an ejoyable and well rounded piece
She must be doing something right!
"Uterus genitalia and ovaries..."
Is it really beyond the wit of posters on here to find a more original and less cliched way to express the the difference between men and women?
I don't think she has the depth to be leader, but do not despise her politics. It wins elections, while Farage consistently loses.
A good article by Donald that is well worth reading (for those who normally don't bother). I am astounded that Nicky Morgan believes she (a) has what it takes.(b) has a realistic chance and (c) is flaunting it to everyone like this. She's completely wrong on all counts. Teachers hated Gove because of his rudeness and dogmatism. They don't hate her, they just feel contempt mingled with pity. That's how disastrous her record is.
I imagine however that hanging around with Chris Wormald and the other barely literate, unemployable numpties of the DfES would be enough to give even an imbecile an inflated sense of their own genius.
Her best move would be to abolish the DfES instead. Now that would be a good move educationally and also extremely popular, on top of saving billions in overheads.
1) I am not a Conservative member, but do occasionally lend them my vote. At the GE I voted for the Labour candidate in the locals and for the Conservative in my constituency. I am as likely to join the Lib Dems (if Farron pulled his socks up (*)) as the Conservatives.
2) I am probably going to vote leave. Seemingly unlike almost all the leavers on here, I can see big flaws in their 'arguments' and potential problems being stored up the immediate future if leave wins. Sadly, too many posters are busy brainlessly cheerleading their side than actually addressing the issues.
BTW, have you learnt the difference between fact and fiction yet?
(*) Or whatever the suitable footwear is for the mandate Lib Dem sandals.
She needs a Plan B. One that makes her current proposals look utterly minimalist.
I would suggest that she accepts the need to retain Parent Governors but only in Tory areas - this to be a stalking horse for the redistribution of seats (look at tax take as well as mere number of voters?) and the replacement of local authorities in inner-city areas with French-style prefects. (I leave it to others here to decide what should go where.)
That will, at the least, give her a distinctive manifesto for the Party leadership election - distinctive from the "white male" candidates, anyway.
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50% of UK doctors voted Conservative in 2010 according to a poll in Pulse. I haven't seen a more recent figure.
Y'know, like lots of these private schools she and Gove were/are forever banging on about. The ones that are charitable trusts, anyway, which is what academy schools would mostly be in practice.
The announcement of this policy was at least a Parliament too early and I think it has no chance of being brought into force in the next few years. Many LEAs are pointless bureaucracies soaking up scarce resources with paperwork that no one will ever look at except to try to pass the blame for failure to others but there are a lot of practical problems to be addressed.
Firstly, there are a lot of specialists who are employed through LEAs. This used to be things like Speech and Language Therapists but now includes such things as peripatetic music teachers. No doubt chains of schools can make their own provision but for most schools providing such services efficiently will be a real challenge.
Secondly, there is the related issue of special needs children. The policy is to have these in mainstream education where possible but this again can involve a whole range of specialists that a LEA might employ but a school won't. Where they are not mainstreamed resources can be concentrated but unless that policy is changed stand alone schools are an issue.
Thirdly, it seems to me that Whitehall is taking on a whole heap of trouble by doing this. We have already had issues with under performing Academies and the inadequacies of the regimes to address them. I would not suggest for a moment that LEAs do any better, if they did the failing schools of 50 years ago would not still be failing schools today but the idea that taking responsibility for this is going to enhance someone's career is for the birds.
I could go on but what is the point? Academies have undoubtedly brought some new leadership into some schools and improved them. They have the potential over time to do more. But the idea that there is an infinite pool of such leadership just waiting to be untapped is ridiculous.
The real irony of Gove and I think also Lansley is that their proposals sounded excellent, as did their keenness to do that specific role. Unfortunately they then started putting them into practice much too fast and in the most disruptive way possible. When anyone offered them well-meant advice on patience and getting it right instead of getting it rushed through, they resorted to childish abuse ('the blob') and carried on anyway.
Quite a feat to turn teachers Labour after Blunkett, Clarke and Balls, but Gove managed it. Morgan is merely taking matters to a logical conclusion.
"The EU referendum battle took an astonishing new twist last night after officials caved in to demands to come clean about the true scale of mass immigration. The information could reveal up to 1.3million extra EU citizens are living here – electrifying the referendum debate and giving a major boost to the Out camp. MPs said the Government was only releasing the information under huge pressure. One said it was ‘Late, but a good deal better than never"
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3521972/We-told-real-number-EU-migrants-Explosive-figures-published-just-month-vote-officials-cave-demands-come-clean.html#ixzz44q5Jmu6m
What's wrong with 'two white men'? "Vote for me, I have ovaries!" isn't exactly an appeal for equal treatment.
My post-race analysis of Bahrain's up here:
http://enormo-haddock.blogspot.co.uk/2016/04/bahrain-post-race-analysis.html
It occurs to me that I've mastered the art of the near miss. Of three failing bets, one was blatantly unlucky (Vettel's car failed on the formation lap). The other two were incredibly close (Rosberg got within a tenth of a second of pole, and I backed Hulkenberg for 6th in Oz, and he got 7th).
Not sure if that makes me feel worse or better.
The real problem with the present system, which Mrs M's proposals don't go anything like far enough to redress, is that it spends far too much on your children and not nearly enough on mine.
Also, it will theoretically mean an end to national pay scales. I don't know how much difference that will make in practice. However, in some private schools you get teachers on more or less an NQT's salary (50% less than that of an experienced teacher without administrative responsibilities) all the way through their careers. If that came in in the state sector you might have a huge cost saving at the expense of worsening retention rates.
The other problem may be training new staff, which even in Academies is done through the LEA. I know Nicky Morgan has said she wants to abolish QTS but even allowing for that there will be gaps that need filling.
She is bland, rehearsed and ghastly, everything a woman shouldn't be.
I think the issue with special educational needs is a big one as well. Why on earth Morgan has decided to tackle something this big, which I don't think the conservatives are strong enough to fight anyway, is baffling.
Maybe a few more years, with some more evidence re. Academies, and my opinion may change. But it far too soon.
Gove and May are likely to be the final two now; Osborne has in the past weeks blown his own chance and witness Javid's disappear too.
Paterson and Fox might throw their oar in, but won't get far vs Gove and May.
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I cannot understand why we don't re-introduce exit controls at ports and airports. If we really want to know who is entering or leaving the country then we need to count them in and out. Relying on proxies like NI numbers or passenger surveys will never give an answer. We also cannot track who has overstayed.
We do not need to Leave to do this.
However, whether this is the right way or the right time is a very different question.
The problem is for that to work, the LEA would want to learn. That doesn't happen if the LEA thinks it is politically, socially or structurally superior to the upstarts.
It's the same with many businesses: "There's this new company doing well: but we've been going two hundred years - what can they teach us?"
Inertia can be fatal to any organisation.
One of the first things the DWP do on any application for a NINO is to check whether one has previously been allocated to an applicant.
The discrepancy in NINOs is, I suspect, easily explained by the fact that dependants will be given them upon benefit claims.
So NINOs allocated will be higher than workers working.
If they were, they would be attached as an appendix to the Chilcot Report.
Hard right of the Conservatives.
I was a governor at a school in such an LEA (Bradford) and we opted to go academy because of how the Authority treated schools, teachers and pupils and beans on a board to be pushed around with no consideration of their preferences or needs. The more schools that went, the more that those left became the playthings of the beancounters.
More seriously, it happens to be true.
If there was a permanently confused Owl party.
Cameron was to the Right of Clarke and, somewhat unbelievably now, managed to appear more eurosceptic than David Davis during the leadership campaign because he pledged to pull the Tories out of the EPP.
On the Labour side, I suppose it's either Wilson or Atlee, probably the latter more as he was unashamedly socialist.
The three village colleges are all based in smallish villages, and are doing well. The newly built college a couple of hundred yards from me is outstanding.
Yet the Peterborough inner-city school is failing. The fact that the trust can run three schools very successfully, yet one is in special measures, shows that management might not be the only cause of successful or failing schools.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-34075769
I would really struggle to find any meaningful difference, other than the party label, the fact she doesn't belong to a union and sounds a bit posh.
I can see him getting to the top of the Conservative party and is a worthwhile value punt.
In the early 70s L'borough was Labour, but then no doubt the seat's demographics were very different (I used to work there so know it a bit). Lots more industrial workers for a start.
The amusing thing was it never dawned on them that they were signing their own death warrants by doing that. They just carried on until they had only one secondary school left, which promptly took academy status behind their backs anyway. How thick can you get?
Loughborough, Broxtowe, Nuneaton etc are where Labour lost the election last year, and Scotland obviously!
If we had nationwide middle schools, it would work. But they don't come cheap.
Running for leadership of #Conservatives, PM promised to get back employment/social policy from EU..
Still waiting https://t.co/XC0mj3kg6L
*Technically that should be Dr Suspicious of course, but let's not stand on ceremony between friends.